Hongfa Temple

TempleLuohu: the Border Crossing and Old Shenzhen

HONGFA TEMPLE · HONGFA SI

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Luohu: the Border Crossing and Old Shenzhen · 22.580°N 114.177°E

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A working Chan monastery inside Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, and a good illustration of how new Shenzhen is: planned from 1983, it broke ground on 1 July 1985 and opened to the public on 31 August 1990 - the city's urban-management bureau calls it the first temple built in mainland China after 1949 - and its Buddha images were consecrated in June 1992. Its website is published jointly by the Shenzhen and Luohu Buddhist associations and the temple; there is no temple ticket, but you are inside the botanical garden, so the garden's entry rules apply first. The temple's own published hours are 08:00-18:00.

Before you goGetting in is a garden problem, not a temple problem: there is no temple ticket, but you have to be inside Fairy Lake first, which means the garden's WeChat-only ticket between 08:00 and 18:00 - exactly the window the temple is open. That is the awkward part, because the free garden hours (before 08:00, after 18:00) are precisely when the temple is shut. The most recent opening notice the temple itself has published is from December 2022 and also imposed a daily named booking through a WeChat channel; whether that booking still applies on an ordinary day is not stated anywhere official we could find, and the only current reservation rule with an official source is the Chinese New Year one. The same 2022 notice suspended the free vegetarian meal the temple used to serve, and the temple has never announced its return; visitor accounts from 2024-2026 consistently say the dining hall is handing it out again (from about 11:00 and 17:00, until it runs out). Do not count on it for lunch - ask the guest office first. Phone the reception on 0755-25737095 before a special trip. Something wrong here? Tell us →

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AdmissionFreeFree; you pay only the botanical garden's entrySource ↗

Hours08:00-18:00 (temple notice, December 2022)Source ↗

ClosedNone fixed; open daily (temple notice, 2022)Source ↗

IDNone on ordinary days; Chinese New Year entry is by booking checked against a valid ID documentSource ↗

LandmarkHongfa Temple (弘法寺)

AddressInside Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Liantang, Luohu District (深圳市罗湖区莲塘仙湖植物园内弘法寺)Source ↗Navigate ↗

EntranceThrough the botanical garden's main gate, then the shuttle from the right of the entrance (about 8 minutes, 3 yuan, 07:00-18:00) or walk uphill. Temple reception (客堂) 0755-25737095

Last verified 2026-09-23

How to book

None on ordinary days; at Chinese New Year through the botanical garden's WeChat ticketing (深圳市仙湖植物园)Source ↗

Paying on site

No temple ticket. You pay the botanical garden 15 yuan (10 on public holidays)

Language

None published; reception 0755-25737095, temple office 0755-25179580

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